Farm game

Abstract

A farm game having a price board, dice silo, money, farm record sheets, homestead plats and various commodities. The dice silo displays a chance selected die with a marked subdivision of the silo face plate, and the price board is divided into sections equal in number to the dice in the silo. The dice set a price or quote marked on the price board from which the players conduct transactions.

I claim: 
     
       1. A game playing apparatus which promotes simulation of farm managment techniques comprising: (a) a plurality of cards representing assets of various types;   (b) means for randomly establishing, at various points during the course of the game, a plurality of variables wherein said means include a support stand, a plurality of dice, a faceplate having a first portion through which the dice can be seen and at least one other portion which is subdivided, each subdivision being approximately the same height as a single die and being labeled to identify the subdivision with a particular asset, a dice receiving chamber for aligning and orienting the dice behind the first portion of the faceplate so that only one side of each die is exposed through the faceplate and each die is associated with only one subdivision of at least one other portion of the faceplate, a dice storage and shaker chamber, and an annular opening between the dice receiving chamber and the dice storage and shaker chamber;   (c) means for displaying the values of at least some of the variables wherein said means include a board having at least one set of x and y axes, one of said axes being divided into six portions and labeled one through six and the other axis being divided into the same number of portions as are dice in the variable establishing means and having the same labels or designations as the subdivisions on the faceplate of the variable establishing means, a plurality of spaces established by the x and y coordinates which are labeled to assign values to the coordinates and a plurality of markers, one for each portion, along one of the axes which are in slidable engagement with the board and movable parallel to the other axes for designating the proper space defined by the x and y coordinates;   (d) play money for conducting transactions involving the assets; and   (e) means for recording the transactions.